Mike Mimoso and Dennis FIsher Discuss the Sony Breach

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the details of the Sony breach, including the question of attribution, Sony’s response to the attack, media outlets publishing the stolen data and the rise of destructive malware attacks. Download: digitalunderground174.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Las Vegas Sands' Casino Network hit by Destructive Malware

Sony Pictures Entertainment hack that started at the end of the last month and so far has caused a severe damage to its reputation as well as resources, from internal system shutdown to upcoming movies and scripts leak. Now, a similar cyber attack against Casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp has...

PowerScripts PlusMail WebConsole 1.0 Poor Authentication Vulnerability (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2653/info PowerScripts PlusMail Web Control Panel is a web-based administration suite for maintaining mailing lists, mail aliases, and web sites. It is reportedly possible to change the administrative username and passwor...

Sun ONE Starter Kit 2.0 / ASTAware SearchDisc 3.1 Search Engine Directory Traversal Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5828/info A vulnerability has been reported for the Sun ONE Starter Kit 2.0 and ASTAware SearchDisc. The Starter Kit includes a search engine facility provided for easy information retrieval. The search engine included wi...

EZ Systems HTTPBench 1.1 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6153/info An information disclosure vulnerability has been reported for httpbench. Reportedly, httpbench may disclose the contents of web server readable files to remote attackers. Information obtained in this manner may ...

Trend Micro Virus Control System 1.8 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6618/info An information disclosure vulnerability has been reported for TVCS. Reportedly, it is possible for an attacker to access the log files generated by TVCS. The log files contain very sensitive information about th...

Fedora 20 : ImageMagick-6.8.6.3-4.fc20 (2014-4969)

Build 6.8.6-3 version because soname bump happened in newer. - Concretize soname versioning. - Add Patch0: ImageMagick-6.8.7-psd-CVE.patch CVE bug fix backporting: http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic. php?f=3&t=25128&sid=ff40ad66b1f845c767aa77c7e32f9f9c&p =109901p109901 for fix...

Model Predicts Optimal Timing of a Cyber Conflict

Security researchers from the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan have published a mathematical model they said will produce the proper timing for the delivery of offensive cyberweapons. Defenders can also make use of the model to understand attackers and when an targeted...

Wiper, the Destructive Malware possibly connected to Stuxnet and Duqu

Kaspersky Lab publishes research resulting from the digital forensic analysis of the hard disk images obtained from the machines attacked by the Wiper - a destructive malware program attacking computer systems related to oil facilities in Western Asia. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have...

Saudi Aramco Oil Producer's 30,000 workstations victim of Cyber Attack

Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer, has resumed operating its main internal computer networks after a virus infected about 30,000 of its workstations in mid-August. Immediately after the Aug. 15 attack, the company announced it had cut off its electronic systems from outside access to...

Shamoon Malware : Permanently wiping data from Energy Industry Computers

Malware researchers have uncovered an attack targeting an organization in the energy industry that attempts to wreak havoc by permanently wiping data from an infected computer's hard drive and rendering the machine unusable. Symantec would not name the victimized firm, and so far has seen the...

40th anniversary of the computer virus !

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Creeper, the world's first computer virus. From Creeper to Stuxnet, the last four decades saw the number of malware instances boom from 1,300 in 1990, to 50,000 in 2000, to over 200 million in 2010. Besides sheer quantity, viruses, which were originally use...

Ruby contains a vulnerability that prevents safe level 4 from functioning as a sandbox.

Overview Safe level is a security model provided by Ruby language that limits the operation of untrusted objects. A vulnerability that allows an attacker to bypass the safe level restrictions and execute inaccessible methods ex. destructive methods was confirmed. Impact An attacker may be able to...

XSS by setting img.src to javascript: URI — Mozilla

mozbugra4 reported that the src attribute of an IMG element loaded in a frame could be changed to a javascript: URI that was able to bypass the protections against cross-site script XSS injection. The injected script could steal credentials and financial data, or perform destructive actions on...

EZ Systems HTTPBench 1.1 - Information Disclosure

EZ Systems HTTPBench 1.1 - Information Disclosure source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6153/info An information disclosure vulnerability has been reported for httpbench. Reportedly, httpbench may disclose the contents of web server readable files to remote attackers. Information obtained in...

Problems with cons.saver

Hi, Many systems have a suid on cons.saver which is part of midnight commander package. Standard location of this binary is /usr/lib/mc/bin/cons.saver. There is a bug, which allows luser to write '0' char to any symlinkable file in system. So it can be very destructive, I wrote simple example of...